"Today we have confirmed the official invitation to Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to visit Kazakhstan at any convenient time," Foreign Affairs Minister of Kazakhstan Erlan Idrissov told journalists after the meeting with his Singaporean colleague Grace Fu in Astana on Monday.

"We are confident the Kazakh-Singaporean cooperation is to develop in the future," the Minister added.

Permanent memorial 'Ark of Return' revealed in New York ASTANA. KAZINFORM - To honour the victims of slavery, one of the most horrific tragedies of modern history, a permanent memorial "Ark of Return" has been revealed today at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, when the world marks the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Kazinform refers to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan.